FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual

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This hands-on, friendly guide shows you how to harness FileMaker's power to make your information work for you. With a few mouse clicks, the FileMaker Pro 11 database helps you create and print corporate reports, manage a mailing list, or run your entire business. FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual helps you get started, build your database, and produce results, whether you're running a business, pursuing a hobby, or planning your retirement. It's a thorough, accessible guide for new, non-technical users, as ...

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Overview

This hands-on, friendly guide shows you how to harness FileMaker's power to make your information work for you. With a few mouse clicks, the FileMaker Pro 11 database helps you create and print corporate reports, manage a mailing list, or run your entire business. FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual helps you get started, build your database, and produce results, whether you're running a business, pursuing a hobby, or planning your retirement. It's a thorough, accessible guide for new, non-technical users, as well as those with more experience.

  • Start up: Get your first database up and running in minutes
  • Catalog your data: Organize contacts, to-do items, and product information with speedy data-entry and sorting tools
  • Create professional documents: Publish reports, invoices, and more, with ease
  • Add visual power and clarity: Create colorful charts to illustrate and summarize your data
  • Harness processing power: Crunch numbers and search text with dozens of built-in formulas
  • Learn advanced topics: Explore the high-level features of FileMaker Pro Advanced and FileMaker Server
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781449382599
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 6/24/2010
  • Series: Missing Manual Series
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 920
  • Sales rank: 806807
  • Product dimensions: 7.00 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Susan Prosser is a reformed journalist who's stopped trying to bring information to the people and now helps them manage the data they already have. She is a FileMaker Certified Developer and has developed FileMaker databases for 12 years, and also trains and writes curricula for other developers.

Stuart Gripman is the founder of Crooked Arm Corp, a full-service FileMaker Pro consulting and development firm based in Berkeley, California. A FileMaker Certified Developer, he has written for both Macworld and MacLife.

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Table of Contents

The Missing Credits

Introduction

Part one: Getting Started with FileMaker

Chapter 1: Working with a Database

Chapter 2: Organizing and Editing Records

Part two: Building Your First Database

Chapter 3: Creating a Custom Database

Chapter 4: Adding Power to Your Database

Part three: Thinking Like a Developer

Chapter 5: Creating and Managing a Relational Database

Chapter 6: Field Options

Chapter 7: Layout Tools

Chapter 8: Understanding Calculations

Chapter 9: More Calculations and Data Types

Chapter 10: Understanding Scripts

Chapter 11: Exploring Script Steps

Part four: Becoming a Power Developer

Chapter 12: Applying Developer Utilities

Chapter 13: Advanced Relationship Techniques

Chapter 14: Reporting and Analysis

Chapter 15: Advanced Calculations

Chapter 16: Advanced Scripting

Part five: Integration and Security

Chapter 17: Sharing Your Database

Chapter 18: Adding Security

Chapter 19: Sharing Data with Other Systems

Part six: Appendixes

Getting Help

FileMaker Error Codes

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  • Anonymous

    Posted Sat Oct 29 00:00:00 EDT 2011

    More than just the missing manual

    I haven't had enough time to go through the manual yet---that might take years. From what I have read, it is a comprehensive manual that is going to help A LOT.

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